Wireless

AT&T Mobility said it activated a record 3.2 million Apple Inc. iPhones on its network during the recently completed second quarter that included only about a week worth of the latest iPhone 4 sales. The strong activations helped push the industry’s No. 2 carrier to 1.562 million net customer additions during the quarter and ending the first half of the year with 90.130 million devices on its network.

For the majority of us, the only thing more irritating than listening to someone yap away on their mobile phone on public transport is the realisation that we ourselves don’t have reception to facilitate our rant.

As mobile phones become smarter and smarter, one firm firmly believes your home phone shouldn’t be left behind. DSP Group, which has been churning out wireless chipsets for over two decades thinks it’s time for people to have smart-home-phones and is the first company to come up with an Android based home phone product.

Wandering around the halls of Nangang at this year’s Computex, RCR was accosted by a rep from Promate, offering to show off the firm’s ProBalls. With an offer like that, how could we refuse?

China Telecom, the Chinese telecommunications operator, launched its first 3G tablet on Monday, un-originally dubbed the LifePad.

Mifi has finally arrived in the Middle East, according to a joint Novatel Wireless and Worldcom Technology announcement on Monday, with the 2352 version of the device being let loose across the peninsula as well as in North Africa.